George W Fairweather, David H Sanders, David L Cressler

Community Life for the Mentally Ill

An Alternative to Institutional Care

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing participating social positions in American society for mental patients. This book explores the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781138520875
• ISBN-10: 113852087X
• Artikelnr.: 69944945

Autorenporträt

George W. Fairweather, David H. Sanders, David L. Cressler, Hugo Maynard

Inhaltsangabe

The Social Innovative Experiment
1: Overview of the Experiment
1: Social Status and Mental Illness
3: Planning and Implementing the Project
Evolution of an Autonomous Society in the Community
4: The Era of Maximum Professional Supervision
5: A Governing Body Emerges
6: The Attempt at Self-Government
7: Autonomy at Last
Interchange With the Surrounding Community
129: The Socioeconomic Environment of the Lodge
9: Social Exchange With the Community
10: Relations With the University
11: Medical Care for the Members
Comparison of the Community Environments
12: The Community Adjustment of Lodge Members
13: The Effect of Volunteering and Chronicity on Community Adjustment
14: Mthe Relationship Between the Social Situation and Treatment Criteria
15: Group Processes in the Hospital and Community Social Subsystems
Implications for Innovative Research With the Mentally Ill and Other Marginal Groups
16: Staff and Patient Views of Innovative Hospital and Community Treatment Programs
17: Operating Principles for Community Treatment Subsystems
18: A Recurrent Social Problem: Changing the Social Status of Marginal Man